coaching for clarity and courage
A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew that no one would be […]
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If you have to pay to volunteer, it’s not employment experience, it’s tourism. No one cares about tourism on your resume. It’s also no particularly useful to the organization – beyond the fee you pay. If your work was useful, […]
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This is a really good article on how to be happy at work. I am going to be in DC for the month of June. Since I work remotely, I’ll be in my sister-in-law’s basement, spending quality time with my […]
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My job is terrible. My organization is unethical enough that I feel bad working there, but not so much I can gather evidence and expose them. All my colleagues are undermining back-biters and they take three hour lunches. My boss’s […]
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If you’ve ever wanted to see me screw up on stage, you’re in luck! A talk I gave on international development is now up in the TED YouTube archive. It was five years ago, but I remember being very pleased […]
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Specifically, why you might want to coach with me. My focus as a coach is on helping you find clarity and courage. If you feel unhappy at work, but don’t know how to change that, coaching can help. If you […]
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Actually, we don’t have a sponsor. But I do get paid to coach people, and every so often I like to mention that. I’ve done some really fun vision work, helping people imagine exactly the 2018 they want to achieve. […]
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You’re not stupid. Your heart and your body and your brain – they know what to do. And they know when you’ve gone wrong. When you are out of alignment with your true self – when you have lost your […]
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It’s easy to to think of our lives as a series of missed opportunities – one long list of things we could have done better. You can flip that script, though, and see life as a chance to use your […]
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To whoever came by my site over the weekend and read all the posts about Peace Corps. I offer five-dollar coaching to all current and recently returned PCVs (yes, even if you ET’d). You are idealists doing something hard […]
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A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew that no one would be […]
In my coaching practice, I get a lot of versions of this question: how do I talk about something unpleasant without upsetting the person I’m talking to? The answer: you can’t. There is no perfect language that will make a […]